| 单词 | long-lasting |
| 释义 | long-lasting (once / 18732 pages) adj Long-lasting things stick around for a while. If the medicine you're taking for your sore throat has long-lasting side effects, they'll affect you for many weeks or even months. A long-lasting relationship lasts for years, and long-lasting makeup stays on your face all day, until you wash it off at night. This adjective can mean that something is durable or resilient, or in other words that it holds up over time. Other things are simply long-lasting by coincidence — they've just been there for a long time. WORD FAMILYlong-lasting: longer-lasting USAGE EXAMPLESCarefully research high-quality, long-lasting items you want and buy them when their prices drop a significant amount. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) They now represent the biggest challenge to Francis' hopes of developing a long-lasting entente with Beijing, according to Catholic Church officials and scholars. Reuters(Dec 23, 2016) Orders for long-lasting durable goods are down slightly in 2016 compared with last year, despite overall economic growth. Wall Street Journal(Dec 22, 2016) adj existing for a long time Syn durable, lasting, long-lived long primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified |
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